The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 18

I divided my six thousand sequins with them, giving a thousand to each and keeping one for myself, and the other three I buried in a corner of my house.

Who acts: I, other three · What happens: divide, give, keep, bury · To what, where: thousand sequins, thousand, one, corner

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other three), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 divided	nsubj
2	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sequins	nmod:poss
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	nummod
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sequins	nummod
6	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 divided	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 divided	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 giving	punct
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 divided	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 giving	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 thousand	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 keeping	cc
16	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 giving	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 keeping	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 myself	case
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 keeping	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 buried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 buried	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 three	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 three	amod
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 buried	nsubj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 buried	nsubj
26	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 divided	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 corner	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 corner	det
29	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buried	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 house	nmod:poss
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 corner	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	divide	past	I	my thousand sequins		with sequins = sequin	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sequin=Patient with they=Instrument
2	give	gerund	I not said here	a thousand to each			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	keep	gerund	I not said here	one		for myself	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	bury	past	the other three		a corner of my house		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/18/